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EAST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN & BALKAN SYMPHONIES from the 19Th Century to the Present Composers EAST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN & BALKAN SYMPHONIES From the 19th Century To the Present A Discography of CDs and LPs Prepared by Michael Herman Composers R-Z ALEXANDER RAICHEV (1922-2003, BULGARIAN) Born in Lom. He studied composition with Assen Karastoyanov and Parashkev Hadjiev at the Sofia State Conservatory and then privately with Pancho Vladigerov. He went on for post-graduate studies at the Liszt Music Academy in Budapest where he studied composition with János Viski and Zoltán Kodály and conducting with János Ferencsik. He worked at the Music Section of Radio Sofia and later conducted the orchestra of the National Youth Theatre prior to joining the staff of the State Academy of Music as lecturer in harmony and later as professor of harmony and composition. He composed operas, operettas, ballets, orchestral, chamber and choral works. There is an unrecorded Symphony No. 6 (1994). Symphony No. 1 (Symphony-Cantata) for Mixed Choir and Orchestra "He Never Dies" (1952) Konstantin Iliev/Bulgarian A Capella Choir "Sv. Obretanov"/Sofia State Philharmonic Orchestra BALKANTON BCA 1307 (LP) (1960s) Vasil Stefanov/Bulgarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus BALKANTON 0184 (LP) (1950s) Symphony No. 2 "The New Prometheus" (1958) Vasil Stefanov/Bulgarian Radio Symphony Orchestra BALKANTON BCA 176 (LP) (1960s) Yevgeny Svetlanov/USSR State Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1965) ( + Vladigerov: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 and 4 and Marinov: Fantastic Scenes) MELODIYA D 016547-52 (3 LPs) (1965) Symphony No. 3 "Strivings" (1966) Dimiter Manolov/Sofia State Philharmonic Orchestra ( + Bulgaria-White, Green, Red Oratorio) BALKANTON BCA 2035 (LP) (1970s) Ivan Voulpe/Bourgas State Symphony Orchestra ( + Stravinsky: Firebird Suite) BALKANTON BCA 1131 (LP) (c. 1968) Symphony No. 4 for String Orchestra (1968) Vasil Kazandjiev/Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble ( + Vladigerov: 7 Pieces for Strings) BALKANTON BCA 1177 (LP) (1970s) MusicWeb International November 2017 East-Central European & Balkan Symphonies R-Z Symphony No. 5 for Chamber Orchestra (1972) Vasil Stefanov/Bulgarian Radio Symphony Orchestra ( + Burning Dawn Overture) BALKANTON BCA 1392 (LP) (1970s) MIROSLAV RAICHL (1930-1998, CZECH) Born in Náchod. He studied composition under Pavel Bořkovec at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague where he stayed on as postgraduate composition student of Vaclav Dobiáš. He worked for the Czech Music Fund and the Union of Czechoslovak Composers and then taught at the Prague Conservatory and at the Conservatory in Pardubice. He composed an opera, orchestral, chamber and vocal works. His Symphony No. 1 is from 1955. Symphony No. 2 (1958-60) Alois Klíma/Czechoslovak Radio Symphony Orchestra SUPRAPHON SUA 18501 (LP) (1960s) Sinfonietta No. 1 for Chamber Orchestra (1976-7) Eduard Fischer/Dvo·ák Chamber Orchestra ( + Stepanek: Promena) PANTON 81110298 (LP) (1982) Sinfonietta No. 2 for Chamber Orchestra (1985) Vít Micka/Pilsen Radio Orchestra ( + Zamečnik: Concerto Grosso and Odstrčil: The White Dove) PANTON 81100628 (LP) (1986) ĽUDOVIT RAJTER (1906-2000, SLOVAK) Born in Pezinok. He studied at the School of Music for Slovakia in Bratislava with Frico Kafenda for piano and R. Rupník for cello and then went on to the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna where he studied composition with Franz Schmidt and Joseph Marx and conducting with Clemens Krauss. He taught the theory of music and cello at the Town School of Music in Bratislava and the became an assistent to Clemens Krauss at his Master Courses in Salzburg.His composition studies continued at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest where his teacher was Erno Dohnányi. 1933 – 1945 the first conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of the Hungarian Radio in Budapest. He had an illustrious acdemic career at the Academy of Music and Drama in Bratislavaand and was also a co-founder and the first conductor of the Slovak Philharmonic. He composed a ballet, incidental music, orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works, including a Sinfonietta per Grande Orchestra (1993). Sinfonietta for Large Orchestra (1927-8) MusicWeb International p2 November 2017 East-Central European & Balkan Symphonies R-Z David Porcelijn/Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra ( + Divertimento, Symphonic Suite, Das Pressburger Maifest-Ballet Music and Impressioni Rapsodiche) CPO 777574-2 (2011) PRIMOŽ RAMOVŠ (1921-1999, SLOVENE) Born in Ljubljana. At the Ljubljana Academy of Music, he studied composition with Slavko Osterc and went to Italy for further studies in Siena with Vito Frazzi and with Alfredo Casella and Goffredo Petrassi in Rome. He joined the staff of the library of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and also taught at the Ljubljana Conservatory. He produced a vast catalogue of ccompositions covering the genres of orchestral, chamber, instrumental, vocal and choral works as well as music for the stage and films. He composed these additional Symphonies: Nos. 1 (1940), 2 (1943) and 3 (1948) and Symphony No. 4 "Simfonija 68" (1968) Samo Hubad/Ljubljana Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra ( + Petric: Integrals in Colors and Sonorous Reflections to the Kosovel's Poetry) HELODON FLP 10001 (LP) (1970s) Marko Munih/Slovene Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra ( + Symphony No. 4 and Musiques Funebres) RTVS/SAZAS 107870 CD Symphony No. 5 "Simfonija Pieta" (1995) Marko Munih/Slovene Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra ( + Symphony No. 4 and Musiques Funebres) RTVS/SAZAS 107870 CD Symphony for Piano and Orchestra (1970) Igor Dekleva (piano)/Oskar Danon/Slovene Philharmonic Orchestra (rec.1971) ( + Dekleva: Pentahon, Ciclic: Bakhanal, Bartok: 2 Romanian Dances and solo piano pieces by Chopin and J.S. Bach) SAZAS, RTV SLOVENIA 107863 (2003) Sinfonietta (1951) Milan Horvat/Slovene Pholharmonic Orchestra ( + Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5) SLOVENE PHILHARMONIC SF 995018 Uroš Lajovic/Ljubljana Radio and Television Chamber Orchestra ( + Cello Concerto and Concerto for for Violin, Viola and Orchestra) RTV LJUBLJANA LD 540 (LP) GYÖRGY RÁNKI (1907-1992, HUNGARIAN) MusicWeb International p3 November 2017 East-Central European & Balkan Symphonies R-Z Born in Budapest. He studied composition with Zoltán Kodály at the Budapest Academy of Music and later studied folk music with László Lajtha at the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest. He lived in London and Paris where he studiedc Asian folk musics. Back in Hungary, he directed the music section of Hungarian Radio before completely devoting himself to composing. He composed music over a broad range that included popular music but also opera, ballet, orchestral, chamber, choral and vocal works. He completed a Symphony No. 2 (date unknown). Symphony No. 1 (1977) Ádám Medveczky/Hungarian State Orchestra ( + Cimbalom Concerto and Viola Concerto) HUNGAROTON SLPX 12434 (LP) (1983) KAROL RATHAUS (1895-1954, POLISH > USA) Born in Tarnopol, Galicia (now in Ukraine). At the age of 19, he moved to Vienna to enter the University and the Academy of Music where he studied composition with Franz Schreker. He made his début as a composer-pianist in Vienna in 1919 but moved to Berlin with Franz Schreker and other composers to form a select master class at the Hochschule für Musik.. After stays in Paris and London, Nazism moved him to America where he first worked in Hollywood but settled permanently in New York where he became professor of composition at Queens College for the remainder of his life. He composed in all genres from opera and ballet to works for solo instruments and voices. His only unrecorded Symphony is his Sinfonia Concertante, Op. 68 (1950–51). Symphony No. 1, Op. 5 (1921-2) Israel Yinon/Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin ( + Der Letzte Pierrot) DECCA 455 315-2 (1998) Symphony No. 2, Op. 7 (1923) Israel Yinon/Brandenburg State Orchestra, Frankfurt ( + Symphony No. 3) CPO 777 031-2 (2004) Symphony No. 3, Op. 50 (1942-3) Jascha Horenstein/London Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1957) ( + Korngold: Prelude and Carnival Music from Violanta and Schreker: Prelude to a Drama) PRISTINE AUDIO PASC434 (2015) Israel Yinon/Brandenburg State Orchestra, Frankfurt ( + Symphony No. 2) CPO 777 031-2 (2004) WERONIKA RATUSIŃSKA-ZAMUSZKO (b.1977, POLAND) MusicWeb International p4 November 2017 East-Central European & Balkan Symphonies R-Z Born in Warsaw. She studied composition with Włodzimierz Kotoński and Stanisław Moryto at the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw. She had postgraduate studies with Louis Andriessen and Martijn Padding at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. She holds appointments as assistant professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music and at the Faculty of Instrumental Music and Music Education in Bialystok. She has composed orchestral, chamber, vocal and choral works. Symphony (2008) Miroslaw Jacek Błaszczyk/Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra ( + Sinfonietta, Cello Concerto, Divertimento and Gasherbrum) DUX DUX 0723 (2010) Sinfonietta for String Orchestra (1997) Miroslaw Jacek Błaszczyk/Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra ( + Symphony, Cello Concerto, Divertimento and Gasherbrum) DUX DUX 0723 (2010) ANTON REICHA (1770–1836, CZECH) Born in Prague. He studied in Bonn and later in Vienna where he studied with Antonio Salieri and Johann Albrechtsberger. He eventually settled in Paris. His fame rests on his for his substantial early contribution to the wind quintet literature and his role as a teacher. Among his pupils were Franz Liszt and Hector Berlioz. He composed a vast amount of music in mostf genres and forms, from opera to solo works. Much of his output does not survive. Symphony
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